The Washington critic., 1887-08-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Says the New York Graphtc. Down
on Coney Island beach last Sunday In
the middle of the democratic crowd
that thronsed by the blue waters,
Henry Bergh strolled along unrecog-
nized and unsaluted. Yet few men of
his age have given so much Of their
lives to the alleviation of suffering.
Twenty.four years ago he was our
Secretary of Legation to Russia aud
afterwards for short time our Consul
TO St. Petersburg, and 1t was in the
wintry regions of that Northern capital
that he first planned the establishment
of the great society to which his life
since that time has been devoted. and
with which his name will be
forever linked. In 1866 the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals was organized, and seven
years afterward he was one of the
founders of the Society for the Proven
tion of Cruelty to Children, which has
since done so great and good work
among the waits and neglected little
ones Of our great city. The first named
society has now legal Organization In
thirty. eight States and Territories, In
Brazil, Cuba, the Argentine Republic,
Canada and Mexico, and its fast age.
Ing founder, who is yet In his early
sixties, may live to see Its blessings
and benefits spread over most Of the
civilized world. This is his highest
ambition and his aim on this earth.
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Rich men among these Westerners
almost always want to come to Con-
gress or the Senate, and / understand
that Hill, Tabor and number of others
are scheming already for the election,
says Frank G. Carpenter In a late Dem
yer letter. In the meantime Tom
Bowen is at his home in Del Norte.
COL, 2S5 miles away from Denver,
and Senator Teller is living up In the
mountains at the mining town Of Cen.
trail City. Teller has law office In
Denver, and also big ranch near
Pueblo. Bowens interests are In
mines, and he once told me that man
never got wealthy selling postage
stamps, and that If he wanted to make
fortune he must strike for big game.
1t was In this way that Bowen has
made what he has, and he is said to be
wealthy. He rode here from Arkansas
poor man, and for seven years
worked group of claims in com.
pany with others in corpora.
tion known as the San Juan
Mining Company. 1t is said the
company was badly managed, and its
stock got down very low. Bowen saw
that there was money In Its mines, and
In 1881 Its shares were played for at
poker in Del Norte at the rate of two
drinks share. Bowen quietly bought
them up, getting, 1t is said, $500, ,000
worth of stock for $40. He soon got con.
troll of the stock. He epushed the work,
soon struck rich lead and thus made
fortune. He paid his debts, and l
am told he Is interested In the stamp
mill which has since been erected near
his mine.
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In o group of old soldiers at an up
town hotel the other night, says the
New York tribune. the talk drifted
into discussion of the enduring pow.
ers Of men, when the highest tribute
was paid by all of them to the "stay
ing" qualities of the clerks and "town
boys" who became enlisted soldiers
during the war Of the Rebellion. An
old officer said: The men who camt
from the farms, who had been accus
toned to three regular meals every day
from table stacked high with food
and to ten solid hours Of sleep after q
hard days work In the field, broke
down quickly under the comparative
idleness Of army existence and the IT.
regularity with which they secured
their meals. 1t was too great a change
In their habits and mode of living. The
boys from the cities and towns, who
had been accustomed TO roaming
around without any particular or tixcC
hour for eating. who we've accustomed
10 being out at all times of night. ant
the pale faced clerks who had beer
standing behind counters from day
break TO dusk, were the ones wht
could endure the greatest privation
with the least discomfort They coul,
march all day on crackers and coffe
and fight all day on tightened waist
band"
Hon. Charles Il. Coon, ex Asslstan
Secretary of the Treasury, was at tn
Fifth Avenue Hotel last night, say
the Graphic, back from the cruis
which he and General Sherman en-
joyed along the New England coas
on Banker Bateman's yacht. A littl
more than five years ago Arthur L
Baieman would not have invited tn
General nor anyone else to make
two weeks summer voyage in yach,
for Mr., Bateman did not own enougl
naval necessarics to build two.locket
rowboat, He was n 81 800 clerk In tn
Revenue Marine Service of the Treas
ury Department, and lived the usua
humdrum life that every young maj
falls into who chooses departments
place. He gave the Office up one da,
and opened Il little stock dealing plac
on street, not far from th
Treasury. Some people wOult
call 1t bucket shop and probl
bly, they would not he mistaken. An,
how he succeeded rather mndestly fo
about year, and then came on to New